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"closure" is not "anon sub" (Score:1)
A closure is any subroutine that needs to grab its environment because it's going out of scope, and may or may not be named.
An anonymous subroutine is a coderef, and may or may not be a closure.
I've got code to demonstrate all four types of subroutines (named vs anonymous, closure vs not) at Monks somewhere.
Re:"closure" is not "anon sub" (Score:1)
Re:"closure" is not "anon sub" (Score:1)
BEGIN { my @DoW = qw(Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat); sub DoW { my $n = shift; die unless $n == int($n) and $n >= 0 and $n That's definitely a closure and yet it's a named subroutine.Reply to This
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